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Carousel marks the second year of the large scale musical theatre performance within the Conservatoire.
Company
Creative Team
Director: Andrew Panton
Musical Director: Simon Beck
Choreographer: Emily-Jane Boyle
Associate Director: Susie Dumbreck
Set Designer: Alex Lowde
Lighting Designer: Simon Wilkinson
Sound Designer: Blair Omond
Projection Designer: Tim Reid
Technical Production Team
Stage Manager: Jack Hirst
Deputy Stage Manager: Amber McClelland
Assistant Stage Management:
Technical Stage Manager: Rebecca Coull
Chief Flyperson:
Stage Technicians:
Chief Electrician: Neil Foulis
Deputy Electrician: Audrey Wilson
Sound Designer/ Sound Number 1: Blair Omond
Sound Number 2: Laura Dougan
Lighting Operator: Audrey Wilson
Electricians:
AV Operator: Robert Butler
Sopt Operators: Keiran Fitzpatrick & Shannon Howard
Technical Stage Management
Revolving Stage (Dundee Rep Revolve)
Halo Ring on Automation
Starkeeper's Ladder
Petal Drops
Main Petal Drop
Small Petal Drop
Lx Towers
General Notes
Masking Notes
DS Black and Gauze
Electrics
LX Photos
LX Equipment
Generic Lamps
- SL 15-32 - 21
- SL 19* - 12
- SL 23-50 - 20
- SL 26* - 8
- 1.2K Fresnel - 33
- 1.2K PC - 2
- 2K Fresnel - 11
- 5K Fresnel - 1
- PAR 64 - 30 (10 CP 61, 20 CP 62)
- S4 PAR - 1
- Birdies - 11
- Coda FLood - 28
- Orion Groundrow - 8
Special Lighting Effects
- Vari Lite 1000 tsd - 4
- Reiche and Vogul Beamlights - 2
- Le Maitre MVS Hazer - 1
- Festoon 15M - 1
Festoon
Festoon was used to create a circus atmosphere, Because this was handled by the cast, it was required to be shatterproof. it took 30 x 40 Watt pearl Shatterproof bulbs for one 15M length of festoon.
These Bulbs were bought from a supplier called Covershield.
Lightbulb Halo
The Lightbulb Halo was a main part of the set, as it was the main element representing the Carousel.
My task was to wire up all 80 Lightbulbs in 4 circuits, so it could chase and look as though they were all chasing round the ring.
Firstly I found out the measurement between bulbs, (I used my Vectorworks plan to do this) and then made a template, see below.
I then laid out all the fittings where they go on the ring, and began wiring.
This was wired in Parallel, Each Live, and Neutral went in to the live and neutral points, and then out, and on to the next one. see explanation on Parallel wiring.
Final wiring in 4 circuits
Booms
all of the stage booms required to sit in line with the edge of the fly floor
unfortunately this meant they were sitting on the ramp up to the stage, So to solve this problem, we built small anti rakes to sit under the boom bases.
3 of the booms were to be 7 metres high, this was relatively easy to achieve, the 7M pole was tied to the fly floor, making them very rigid.
Star
the first star, (the understudy) was simple, if a little large. a simple circuit concealed inside a miniature Gin Bottle.
1x warm white LED 2x 1.5V Batteries 1x simple push switch small amount of wire.
The second star (THE star)
was another simple circuit, I used a smaller battery, and a simpler switch.
Overhead rig
(lighting plan designed by simon wilkinson)
The Halo needed to sit above the lighting bars, so it could disappear above the lamps.
this meant rigging all the bars on trapezes, the plan gives an idea of where the bars were to sit, this did mean a lot of time to work out where all the lamps were to plug in & Pair
